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Daily Prompt – Tourist
Out under the summer’s beating sun There are moments of such brilliant fun But none so fun as watching tourists on parade As they pantomime their crazed charade Leaving their footprint traces in the sand While watching lovers hand in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bay, Charade, Daily Prompt, Dream, Fade Away, Footprints, Fun, Hand In Hand, Life, Lovers, Moment, Naive, Pantomime, Parade, Sand, Sand Dollar, Sandcastles, Summer, Sun, Sunset, Tourist, Wash, Yesterday
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First Principles: The Corruption of A People Make It Ripe For Destruction
“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the … Continue reading
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Tagged Certain, Constitution, Corruption, Destruction, First Principles, Government, Ineffectual, John Witherspoon, Profiligacy, Slavery, The People
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Daily Prompt – Stir
Baby, won’t you stir it up Drinking from that hot cup Whipped into shape Without superman’s cape I descend from love to friend Never thought we’d end But, there’s a bass line When I turn and find That when I’ve … Continue reading
The Mission of Paris
In the continuing saga of the fall of Troy: The Mission of Paris by Michael Romani Cheering Trojans party like no tomorrow Whispered rumors bring their sorrow A maiden finds her lips are sealed While coming darkness through a mirror … Continue reading
First Principles: Reason Is the Guard Against Absurdities
“Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurd, Faith, First Principles, Guard, Gullibility, Helm, Mankind, Mind, Reason, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: Beginnings and Endings Are Always Untidy
“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.” -John Galsworthy, author, Nobel laureate (14 Aug 1867-1933)
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Tagged Beginning, Ending, Human, John Galsworthy, Thought For the Day, Undertaking, Untidy
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Daily Prompt – Prayer
Feeling it again, hurting soul to soul As I reel from things I can’t control If I want peace, I know who I am And I have to keep to that despite the slam Of another door right into my … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurd, Believer, Control, Daily Prompt, Door, Embrace, Feeling, Heartbreak, Hurt, Laugh, Locked Door, Mocked, Peace, Prayer, Reel, Soul, Stair
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First Principles: A Degeneracy Of Manners and Spirit Will Be the Ruin of Our Republic
“It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Canker, Constitution, Degeneracy, First Principles, Laws, manners, Republic, Spirit, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Vigor
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Thought of the Day: The Terror Is In the Anticipation of the Bang; Not the Bang
“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” – Alfred Hitchcock, film-maker (13 Aug 1899-1980)
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Anticipation, Ban, Suspense, Terror, Thrill
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